Mike Moore

Michael Kenneth "Mike" Moore (28 January 1949-2 February 2020) was Prime Minister of New Zealand from 4 September to 2 November 1990, succeeding Geoffrey Palmer and preceding Jim Bolger. He was also the Leader of the New Zealand Labor Party from 4 September 1990 to 1 December 1993, succeeding Palmer and preceding Helen Clark.

Biography
Michael Kenneth Moore was born in Whakatane, New Zealand on 28 January 1949, and he left school at the age of 14 to work as a laborer and printer. At the age of 17, he was elected to the Auckland Trades Council, and he was elected the New Zealand Labor Party MP for Eden in 1972. He held various portfolios under the Labor governments before being elected Leader of the NZLP in 1990, succeeding Geoffrey Palmer; he briefly served as Prime Minister from September to November 1990, when the 1990 general election elected a new parliament. Following Labor's defeat, Moore served as Leader of the Opposition until 1993, when Helen Clark successfully challenged him for the party's leadership. Moore went on to serve as Director-General of the World Trade Organization from 1999 to 2002 and Ambassador to the United States from 2010 to 2015, and he died in 2020 at the age of 71.